Graduate Students
Graduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute
Graduate student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship ($1,800), administered by the UCLA International Institute. It will be used to support his fieldwork on Kalabakan Murut, as part of […]
Graduate student Kevin Liang has published part of his MA in Journal of Child Language
Graduate student Kevin Liang has published part of his MA in Journal of Child Language. Congratulations Kevin! Liang K, Sundara M. Infants discover English suffixes allomorph by allomorph. Journal of […]
Graduate Student Kevin Liang in the news in Parets de Vallès, Catalonia
Graduate student Kevin Liang was interviewed by some members of the town hall of Parets del Vallès, Catalonia. This is the main city where he is testing infants for his […]
Graduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again!
Graduate student Kevin Liang is in the news in Catalonia again. Here is another news article written about this dissertation research on Saltatory alternations in Catalan, and how infants could […]
Huilei Wang publishes in Natural Language Semantics
Congratulations to 4th-year PhD candidate Huilei Wang for having her paper “Quantifier Raising out of Mandarin relative clauses” recently accepted to Natural Language Semantics! You can find a preprint on […]
János Egressy publishes in Linguistic Inquiry
Congratulations to 5th-year PhD candidate János Egressy for having his paper “Size-sensitive sequence of tense in Hungarian ” recently accepted to Linguistic Inquiry! You can find an early-access print on […]
János Egressy receives award at GLOW
Many congratulations to Ph.D. candidate János Egressy, who was awarded a prize for best student presentation at GLOW 48! His talk was titled “Williams Cycle effects and successive cyclicity unified“. […]
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks workshop
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded an NSF scholarship to attend the workshop “Abstract and Item-Specific Knowledge Across Domains and Frameworks”, organized by our alum Canaan Briess (now at USC) and […]
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the first place in the student poster session at the 2025 LSA Summer Institute. He presented on his MA project, “Learnability of Prosodic End-Weight Effect in […]
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship
Graduate student, Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the James McCawley Fellowship to attend this year’s LSA Summer Institute at the University of Oregon. Congratulations Jian-Leat!
Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology
Graduate Student Jian-Leat Siah has been awarded the Victoria Fromkin Memorial Prize for Student Excellence in Phonology and will be recognized at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting next year. Congratulations, Jian-Leat!
Katya Khlystova makes it to the final round of Grad Slam
Congratulations to Katya Khlystova for advancing to the finals rounds in UCLA’s Grad Slam competition! Katya is one of 10 graduate students across all of UCLA who has been selected […]